Super Turrican and Psychosis on VC

By Tom Bramwell Published 29 February, 2008

Get your Wii Points ready.

SNES title Super Turrican and the TurboGrafx-16's Psychosis are this week's Virtual Console duo in PAL regions.

The former, developed by Factor 5, rocks up for the usual 800 Wii Points and supports the Classic and GameCube controllers.

Psychosis, meanwhile, is from Naxat Soft, costs 600 Wii Points, and supports the Classic and Cube pads as well as the Wiimote for control.

According to our old friend Wikipedia, Psychosis is a side-scrolling shooter (actually, we could have guessed that) and allows you to position indestructible satellites around your ship to help with the virtual murder.

Turrican, meanwhile, is a side-scroller too, but with more exploration elements, and gives the player a Bionic Commando-style grapple-arm to help out.

Look for reviews of both in an upcoming Virtual Console Roundup.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #1 4 years ago

    Is Super Turrican good? I LOVED Turrican 2 on the C64.

  • Greebo #2 4 years ago


    I had the first Turrican on Amstrad CPC and didn't buy another game for months!

    First VC title I've been excited about ever!

  • sharpfish #3 4 years ago

    AMIGA VERSION FTW! Turican 2!

  • erp #4 4 years ago

    No way man, the C64 versions are definitive. God I loved those games!

    How ironic that this is released on the same week as the C64 VC is announced... I wish we'd've got the C64 versions instead!

  • erp #5 4 years ago

    Also, I know this has probably been mentioned a billion times before and Nintendo are just sticking their fingers in their ears laughing at us, but how come they keep adding more and more formats to the VC compatibility list and yet are still only trickling out 2 - or even 1 - game per week?

    Please sort it out. Please? Anybody?

  • speedjack #6 4 years ago

    /scary voice on....

    W-E-L-C-O-M-E T-O T-U-R-R-I-C-A-N !!!




    /scary voice off

  • mkreku #7 4 years ago

    Wow.. Turrican.. If only the joystick port on my C64 hadn't given up, I could just plug it in and play both Turrican and Turrican 2 again, the way it should be played: on a 14 inch monitor with mono sound and a Wico Redball joystick :D

  • Mr_Bogus #8 4 years ago

    Super Turrican = best Turrican game. It's like a "best of Turrican 1 & 2" from the Amiga, and the awesome Hulsbeck music doesn't drop out when you shoot.

  • Darren #9 4 years ago

    Turrican and its sequel were two of my favourite games on the Amiga and both had a stunning soundtrack from Chris Huelsbeck that still sounds terrific today. I've never played Super Turrican as I never owned a SNES but I've no doubt it's good if it's also from Factor 5. Shame then that I've got just 91 blocks left on my Wii's internal memory and I'm fed up of copying stuff to and from the 2 GB SD card I have so I won't be buying this until Nintendo address this "issue" by making it possible to run games from memory cards.

  • Greebo #10 4 years ago


    "Super Turrican = best Turrican game. It's like a "best of Turrican 1 & 2" from the Amiga, and the awesome Hulsbeck music doesn't drop out when you shoot."

    SOLD!

  • GamesConnoisseur #11 4 years ago

    Yippee!! Turrican was one of my fav game and did a marathon session to finish the game in one go!

  • peasoup #12 4 years ago

    I remember loving super turrican...but this was a long time ago so it may be rubbish :)

  • monkie_king #13 4 years ago

    Turrican 1+2 were Amiga games really, weren't they? Back-ported to the C64 later on.

  • erp #14 4 years ago

    Oh no no no no no. I can't be bothered to dig out the link (it was probably on Wikipedia, anyway) but there's a quite from Manfred Trenz (The Original Turrican Developer) stating that the C64 version is definitely the original version, even though some strange circumstance meant that Turrican 2 appeared on the Amiga first.
    Edited by 2 at 29/02/08 @ 13:17

  • homerramone #15 4 years ago

    More pish

  • smelly #16 4 years ago

    Super turican was and is ace

  • jamespo #17 4 years ago

    at last... a decent game... only disliked by jim davidson fans

  • megastar #18 4 years ago

    Turrican 1 + especially 2 on the Amiga was the only way to play it

  • ColdShoulder #19 4 years ago

    I just cleared out all my Wii Points buying someone else Street Gangs. I'm not getting anymore until Mario pulls his finger out his arse and gets me extra storage space.
    I mean, what's the point in so many channel spaces if i can only full half of them?

  • yagisencho #20 4 years ago

    Finally, another game worth buying.

    I actually have it on cartidge, but it's faulty, and freezes up after a few minute's play. I absolutely loved the Amiga versions. I even bought the arranged music CD by Hulsbeck. So they've found their target audience with this one.

  • Daikon #21 4 years ago

    Turrican 1+2 were Amiga games really, weren't they? Back-ported to the C64 later on.

    No. Turrican was released on C64 first.